Monday, June 14, 2010

Anime: Friends’ Whereabouts Arc- Episode 455



Yup. It’s that weird. To avoid being completely blown away by strange sights such as this, go to OnePieceOfficial.com and save what’s left of your sanity.

First Thoughts
Sora here; I will be doing this week’s episode because Mikey and I are trying to set up some sort of rotation here with who will be doing the anime, and so my time landed on this week. Enjoy.

I was hopeful that this episode would be good, to make up for half of last week’s episode. Yes, it is of course Sanji’s fateful and terrifying encounter. But enough ranting about that already, everyone has heard far more of that then could be possibly said in a thousand years by now.

Well, I was worried about this episode, for a couple of reasons. First off, because Usopp’s part doesn’t look all that great to me. That Heracles dude freaks me out and is irritating, and I wasn’t looking forward to Usopp getting comically fat. The main reason for my hesitation with this episode was, of course, my issue with this style of animation. It is so cheap, it is disgraceful towards the good name of One Piece.

I was looking forward to seeing Robin’s part though, that looked very interesting and useful to me. Even with the bad animation, it still was high on my list of things to see. Of course, that is because Robin is my favorite character, for obvious reasons related to her vast collection of knowledge and how strong of a character she is.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

One Piece More: Welcoming the New Guys

What am I doing? Oh yeah....Umm...

Things have been really busy this week in both real life and on the blog side. I have been slowly  recovering from AKon and getting over my con hangover. Getting back into the step of a normal life (Whatever normal means) that doesn't involve me getting angry with many horribly design streets. Then on blog side, things been going normally except that there is the job of doing the Akon con report which has been really fun so far. Though at the same time there are many things coming on the horizon which one of them will be revealed in this post!

-Mikey-san

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Con Piece: The Great Akon Adventure (Part I)

Alternative title for this post was going to be 'The AKon Adventure and Dallas Sucks' but I decided to drop the last part even though it was very true. Their freeways and streets are horribly designed and the signs don't make sense. Anybody who plans to go to Dallas and travel around the city needs to make sure they carry a map with them, GPS, life insurance, car insurance and plan to leave an hour early when traveling. If you don't do that then expect to get lost, upset and suffer dire consequences. 

In order words...Dallas sucks.

Still enough about me hating on Dallas. I did enough of that already and I am sure nobody wants to hear me talk about that. Instead lets talk about how great Akon was because it was! I had a great time at the con and I am sure the tweets I sent from the con were showing that. First thing first, Stephanie Young (voice of Robin of the Funimation dub) so made this con for me and she was totally awesome! Special thanks to her since I really enjoy attending her panels. Then we saw so much great cosplays which you can see in the 200 plus pictures I took! Still just an amazing con and my friends and I had so much fun!

Though enough about me talking about how much fun I had and more about why I had so much fun or whatever I do in these post! haha

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Manga: Chapter 588 (SPOILERS!)

Care for a spot of tea? A bit of Earl Grey goes well with a spoonful of Viz's One Piece.
Which is available here



Monday, June 7, 2010

Anime: Friends' Whereabouts Arc- Episode 454

Do not feed the giant plushy-looking chicks, even if you are a doctor. Go to OnePieceOfficial.com if you want to feed the cheepers or watch new episodes of One Piece! (Okay, so you really cannot feed the chickies…aw.)

First Thoughts
Here we have another addition to the little ‘catch-up with friends activities involving single-scene panels’ Toei seems to be so fond of recently. They still are doing a remarkably good job with them too. It makes me interested in Robin’s meeting with the revolutionaries here soon. This time though, it is the rather entertaining island that Chopper has been sent to and, of course, the inevitable Okama paradise that Sanji has been unfortunate enough to land on. Honestly, I dreaded watching this episode, if only for the torture of having to watch poor Sanji be humiliated in this fashion.

Oh, and I’m the guest blogger-person that Mikey was talking about last week. He’s having too much fun at AKon to be here right now, so to prevent any accidental mistakes within the Anime review today and to keep everything running half-way smoothly, I am taking over!

Oh, and I am commonly known to the web as Sora Tayuya. I will try and keep everything as ‘normal’ as possible, so enjoy!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Manga: Chapter 587 (SPOILERS!)

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!
Let see the One Piece manga sell like they are on fire! Buy from Viz right here!